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This allows Rhys to open out the narrow view of events we have in Brontë's novel and gives the reader an awareness of cultural differences, motivation and psychology of both the characters and sympathy for both.

Weekly Geek 2010-12: Having Fun Isn't Hard.In Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys neglects the linear autobiographical narrative, as in Jane Eyre, preferring the trisect form where parts one and three are in Antoinette's own voice with a gap of Rochester's narration between them.

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I haven't seen either version, so I have no real opinion to give. The other is the 2006 BBC version starring Rebecca Hall and Rafe Spall. The first is the 1993 feature film starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker. There are two film versions of this novel. But like it or hate it, one thing is certain- you will never read Jane Eyre the same way again. It is a different kind of novel and not one that will appeal to everyone's taste. In fact, sorrow was the overwhelming feeling I had after finishing this story. In the end, we cannot help but feel sorry for the characters, both Antoinette and her husband. In the final section, it is the climate of his beloved England that solidifies her descent into insanity, and she escapes the only way she can.through death. When she refuses, he simply writes her off as mad and not normal. Rather than loving her for who she is, he seeks to change into what he was used to in England (this is best seen in his changing her name to Bertha).

Rochester expects something different from Antoinette, and does not seem to be able to accept that she is neither native nor English.

Antoinette seems to represent colonies who struggled under the love/hate relationship with it's mother-country (Rochester).

Antoinette and Rochester's relationship is not only an example of feminist thinking, but also of post-colonial. Even if it had no connection to Bronte's masterpiece, it would still be a classic in it's own right. On the other hand, impossible as it seems, Wide Sargasso Sea must be viewed apart from Jane Eyre. I love how the setting reflects Bertha's personality, for the Caribbean is at once beautiful, vibrant, and terrifying. She wears her passions openly and is mentally unstable. But she is also very different from Jane. She is vivacious and independent, had a troubled childhood, and is looked down by the upper classes of society. In many ways, she is very similar to Jane herself. She is a flesh-and-blood woman with thoughts, feelings, dreams, and desires. Ultimately, it is the story of the "mad-woman in the attic", but here she is more than just a specter. On the one hand, it is impossible to separate this story from the original Bronte novel. Honestly, I wasn't too sure what to expect from this novel, and I'm still not 100% sure what to make of it. I suppose that it was inevitable that I get around to this story, being the huge Jane Eyre fan that I am. The story is narrated by Antoinette and her husband, allowing us to see both sides of a relationship that ultimately descends into madness. We follow her story from childhood up to her marriage to a man who, though unnamed, is obviously Mr. The daughter of a Creole, she belongs neither to the ruling white Europeans, nor to the native black Jamaicans. Young Antoinette Cosway is growing up in the lush and beautiful Caribbean islands. Each one is complicated, unpredictable, and, in many ways, destructive. The relationship between a husband and a wife. The relationship between blacks and whites. The relationship between a colony and its motherland. In her 1966 novel, Dominican-born writer Jean Rhys explores many different relationships. But I find it in my heart to be sorry for her too."